Performance Pack by Iftah - The Video Manual (Ableton Live 12) 

As a german, i love that you neither smiled nor showed any other emotion in the video :D love when germans do the germaning :D:D:D

Performer device is killer. Having a singular floating GUI with customized controls that span across the entire live set... awesome! Well done, Iftah!!

holy crap this is really something. i've watched this a couple times now, and i'm convinced that Performer especially is a really major improvement over any option we had in 11, or honestly even existed before this.

I didn't quite realize what the prearranger was until the demo video. That's something I've always wanted and now it's real. Can't wait to use it. Thanks for creating it.

THIS is the best feature of ableton 12. Great stuff

This is a serious contribution to the Ableton toolbox, Mr Iftah. Thank you very much.🙏

This is an astounding achievement in M4L especially when you consider it works in standalone mode. Fantastic work!

I am so excited about all this. Variations being my fav so far. It's like a superior CTRL-all function from Elektron devices embedded into Ableton. This is my favorite new feature in Live 12. Iftah = GOAT!

This is amazing! loved everything. Thank you for your excellent work with this! My fave 12 thing!

Truly a great contribution to the Ableton Live ecosystem. Thank you 🙏

yes ! been waiting for it. love it before even watching it. but i will now. im excited

Thank you for this long awaited pack, all live performers thank you!

This will open up so so much for me. Thank you for your work and great tutorial !!!

This video has made the Performance Pack the thing I’m most excited about from Live 12 - really nice work!

Variations alone is going to change the game for me! FINALLY, I can recall presets in stock instruments! Thank you so so so much for making this Iftah, you're a total LEGEND!♥

Phenomenal work and exquisitely designed.

Thanks so much for the video! So excited to use the pack

Aamzing, thank you for everything you do for the Ableton community.

This is awesome. Glad Live hasn't forgotten their own name!

This is a brilliant device! Thank you for all of your effort with this demonstration and on the tool. It is very easy to see the many possibilities, and the interface is very clean 👌

I love this so much, thank you for creating it and for the great demo!

Thank you so much for your devices, Sting is amazing to get me inspired for solo jams. And this video is very informative and I can't wait to expand my soul into the new depths of Ableton12!

This is incredible! Thank you so much. This will allow me to undo all the convoluted work-arounds I had to "invent" over the years and never felt good about. Amazing! 🙏

Iftah! You are a magician! Loving this so much and as others have already said THIS is one of the best new features in 12… so liberating for live performance 😎🤩👊🏻🔥great work mate🎵

Thanks for this inviting experience! I'm looking forward to try all this amazing stuff

Hi Iftah I have a question. How are we so lucky to have such a genious person that make this next generation of Max devices? This Is the most game changing live performances devices improvements since session view was invented. I achieved to do something like the pre-arranger using IAC drivers and "dummy clips". But it was so tedious. This is a dream come true. Thank you for this gift, you are great Iftah, as a person who started using ableton live 5, now 21 years later i can say that, at my eyes you made history. What a blessing, thanks.

Proper Game Changing devices!! Thanks for all your hard work developing them @iftah_fow❤

Thank you for this amazing pack!

This is so great! Needed this!

Amazing ❤ what an enhancement of live

Hidden Gems in Live 12 discovered tonight !!! will practice before ask smt , as it seems so clear and complete , Best manual ever , Thanks @Iftah

Thank you for making this!!

Incredible work! Thank you!

this is a game changer, thanks so much for this!!!! ❤

wowww this is incredible, thank you so much!!

Another amazing Device !!!. would love if the rename function in performer actually changed the names also on the push screen for a completely screen-free experience. 🔥

Great work Iftah!

fantastic, thank you for making and share

brilliant work 👏

this is really excellent looking

This man's a generous genius! Thanks!

This is the best thing since sliced beats!

Using multiple apps including Loopy Pro and MIDI FX on my iPad Pro for this… very pleased to see this kind of performance focused surface building is also available through my favorite DAW (and controller) on Mac 😊 🙏🏻 👍🏻

Excited to applly, will make Ableton a true contendor against some of the others esp with their live monitoring latency improvements. Great work!

This is sooo next level~!!!

Yoooooooo🎉 how does this only have 18k veiws in a month, people are asleep. Amazing stuff, can’t wait to integrate into my workflow.

thank you so much for this!

I have been waiting for this for a decade. Well done. I always called this sort of third mode of ableton "sandbox mode". I would be great to be able to make it full screen, so everything else disappears like in a video game. Cheers

Really amazing work. I'm definitely giving performer and variations a go for some upcoming shows. My Push 2 has finally given up on me so I'm gonna see what I can do with the APC

Thanks Iftah I can use this for Live jamming.. Fantastic🙏

Very very good. Congrat.

Unbelievable. I know your work and music since a long time. I love what you do. But I never imagined you would come up with a solution for my midi mapping struggle with ableton. ❤ thank you ❤

Amazing contribution!! Thank you!! I haven´t been able to figure out how assign to a Macro on an Audio Effect Rack! Thank you once again

Phenomenal. 🎉🎉🎉

Seriously, your levels of creativity, technical ability, imagination, drive, and craftsmanship are off the chart!!! Knowing that your ideas and passion have driven so many to create and produce works of art beyond their own capabilities must be amazing and inspirational. I salute you, Iftah, for all the possibilities you have gifted to us mere mortals. 🫡

This is quite compelling.. Great work! Would love to see an OSC integration/mode for interfacing with other software more easily than MIDI.

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!

my boy thanos really just snapped his fingers to bring us this :o

Awesome work! I don't do any live performances but I can imagine how nice these devices will be for performances. When producing, I often thought it would be nice to have something pinned to top like performer with lfos and (midi) shapers. I guess this way it would be easier to map and manipulate all the different devices in an instrument.

Thank you so much

Бодрый чувак! Бодрый девайс! Skinnerbox ништяк!

Well, thank you!

performer is a game changer

It can’t be! Stunning to see it all after waiting ages for smtg stunning like this beaut…. but getting nervous trying to click around where and how to get it to make my own?!?! ❤

Amazing.

I love these devices, thank you so much! As a feature request, please add the ability to see every curve in the Performer device at the same time. If you colour code them for each slot, it will make the device much easier to use when you have many different curves. Danke!

Killer devices you've made! Thanks a lot. I'd be really interested in your ways of optimizing your live set for small controllers. Any deeper look on what you explain at 19:32 would be very useful. Anyway, i'll keep digging the features of variations and perfomer of which I've only scratched the surface. Thanks again.

I love the sbx2039!

Ex machina 🖤

BIG COMPLIMENTS .. THANKS

Thanks for creating the prearranger! For those of us who used to used a similar (now defunct) app in the past (ZenAudio ALK2), this is a very welcome addition. Unfortunately, I think it still needs work (I'm on Mac mini M2, Sonoma 14.2.1). A few bugs have been reported to the Live 12 Beta site. For example, a clip will be recorded under the record clip on the "To track" clip. If you want to record a second/different loop on the same track by using a "To track" loop by a different name, this clip does not record (or repeat later on the "play clip") most of the time (only works about 5 % of the time). If I want to restart from the beginning without erasing the recorded loops, the loops will not consistently record again (have to manually erase the loops before hitting play from the beginning again). Not sure if you were aware of these, but I just want you to know because if this work perfectly, it will be amazing. Thanks for your work!

Iftah thank you for Sting!

Hi @iftah, this is such a huge pain-solver for me! Thank you for making this freely available to us all. I have used it now for a few weeks and I noticed some bugs, particularly using Variations. Is there a forum or group somewhere where we can post and discuss bugs? Thanks again!

recently starting to perform in my band with ableton and the past few days i've been like "hmm what if there was an easy to look at screen i could pull up and i could put buttons on it and the buttons do pre-defined things, particularly the ability to map macros to multiple parameters across the daw, and i can arrange the buttons to look and behave in a way that is easy and intuative to interact with in a performance setting, negating the need to constantly manouvre around the rows and columns of tracks and fx" and then boom hey its coming out soon.... thanks lol

Is there any way to easily select multiple controls (faders, buttons, dials etc) in edit mode to rearrange quicker?

Hey there! Great video! So excited for pre-arranger, wow! When does it come out?

Variations is a much needed an incredible powerful concept / device. Too bad that the Push API is so poor that the current implementation feels like a workaround, and the most important controls, such as 'new' or 'delete' or even switching through variations is currently not supported on the Push. It would be amazing if we could store variations on the fly for scenes and automatically recall them on launch.

Nice one Iftah! Just playing around with Variations, I know I'm breaking the rules here, but it would be great if 'Link to Clip' would allow the variations be triggered by triggering the clip rather than triggering the variation... my artist brain wants to use random follow actions with legato mode and record sporadic variations of synths 😛

I love the Variations device, but I've found that once I have a couple of variations programmed, the device won't allow me to make any permanent changes in the rest of parameters within the same track without having to add them as exceptions. Whenever I make a change in any other parameter without adding it as an exception, the device switches the parameter to its previous state whenever a variation is triggered. This makes the device's functionality rather limiting, cause having to add exceptions for any other parameter I want to change or automate outside of the variation snapshots is a whole lot of work. I tried setting the device to Set mode, but this is even worse, as it does the same with all the parameters in the whole set.

This absolutely amazing! One amazing feature would be a way to assign the switch between two variations to a CC so that the transition between two variations could be continuous instead of a hard switch toggle. Any plans to add such functionality?

I would LOVE to know how, at around 14 mins in, you have the same device controls visible even when selecting different clips (and thus tracks). In standalone especially, as "select on launch" cannot be disabled, this behaviour makes integrating performer very cumbersome for me at the moment.

really nice work! Q's: How would you approach mapping layers with momentary and toggle buttons? Is midi led feedback, colors, blinkings, working in these mappings? Are the mappings saved in the device when saving? Are other gestures possible, i.e. fast double click, Long click etc

This device is awesome Iftah, thank you so much for your hard work! Just want to ask if there is any possibility to increase the possible controls from 48 to 84 in a future update? My Faderfox MX12 for example has 60 and my PC12 84 knobs, would be nice to have one performer instance per controller. To split one controller into two performer instances is a bit unintuitive.

Great pack. Esp. Variations, since Kapture finally stopped working for me in Live 12!

Thats an awesome device! @iftah Do you think it will be possible to split the grid of the push 3 in order to play multiple instruments with the same layout? I would like to customize the grid to control two synths and a few drumpads!

this is the best feature in live 12 (ok, technically is a pack)

This looks incredible. Can't wait for the release of live 12. Can I ask, what is your custom looking midi controller?

amazing pack that i am so excited to explore! im curious how to activate the "performance mode" you talk about at 12:49 on the push 3 to give global control to all of your tracks? can't seem to figure that part out...

This is fantastic. @iftah, when using the prearranger, can you suggest some way to create ‘indefinite looping’ over a portion of the arrangement (perhaps activating the arrangement loop) until released by a control action? I would like to use the prearranger to build a track until a ‘bridge’ that has audience interaction and thus needs to loop until I let it proceed. Any advice much appreciated. Regardless, this pack is a triumph and will be really useful.

Amazing video and tools. Congrats! I have two questions: Can be the arrangement looper be automated? Would be nice to have a loop start automatically and press a button to disable it so playhead continues without jumps. Second one, do you have any words on MIDI input mapping being exclusively learning on Live? I have encountered many situations when trying to map external devices that send multiple non isolated messages, or that also have some kind of modulation(s) outgoing that you'd have to stop/isolate to map another message. This has been a long term issue with Live for me that would love to have addressed natively. It'd be easily done in midi mapping mode by allowing to add parameters to the list by just clicking them, and then have the ability to edit with text the channel, type, and number of the message. Even simpler, just add an edit option on right click on an existing mapping on the list, right now there's only "invert range" on the right click drop menu. Also a feature addition for performer would be to have separated mappings for button down and up states, so the momentary behavior can have enhanced flexibility. This could allow things like record or switch between automation curves while holding the button. Thanks for reading!

This is very impressive and will work very well with the M4L devices I've created for my external MIDI hardware. In fact, it will probably replace many of them! Are there any plans to extend the range of Output Modes you currently provide? I'd like to control my MOTU AVB mixer over OSC and have been struggling to find a solution with Ableton's Connection Kit using the OSC Send device. Your Performance Pack would allow me to control channel levels, pans, aux sends and internal FX on the interface if it could output OSC commands. I love the video, btw. Its a brilliant overview of the pack

Fantastic job (again). Would the prearranger also work on push 3 standalone if you program the arrangement and transfer it to push?

Hey, is there by any chance a way to map a control within Performer (knob, slider, toggle etc...) to an input midi CC? My intention is to set up a layout like that of a midi controller (here Novation LC XL) and to have it ready to go just by setting up the right midi channel to it without having to manually map everything. And later on be able to transfer it from one project to another without having to manually remap it all the time. Aaaaand if in the future there could be an implementation to have the midi controller only affect the selected Performer device (in the case of several inside a project), to make it fully independant of Ableton's stiff midi mapping, this would be a banger. A hybrid solution between a custom script and what the amazing device that Performer is already provides in other words. By all means this is great work. Well done and many thanks.

Midi In function in performer would be a great feature

These are fantastic tools! Thank you. I have noticed a lot of performance issues when using the pre-arranger. Do you know anything about that?

Does Pre Arranger work on the session view? It seems very similar to the Bink Looper. It would be cool if it does. Still cool none the less. Excited to try these tools!

i got some of your material in the library....

The performance pack is great. I really wish that knob positions in performer could be recalled with variations though. As it is now I kinda have to choose which of them I want to use in my set.

this is fantastic, thank you so much! is there a way to crossfade between variations?

need to replay this video a couple of times to really understand what just happen to my brain... the only missing thing for variation is maybe a morph possibility between snapshots, I'm not really good in max programming, don"t really know if it's something complicated to implement.